Rest
- This article is about the feature that regenerates players' energy. For the tea, see Guthix rest.
The Rest feature allows players to regenerate their energy more quickly. At any time, players can right-click the run button next to the minimap and select "Rest" from the menu. While resting, players sit down in a relaxed stance; Energy and Life points will regenerate far quicker. At agility level 1, run energy will regenerate at 2.8 Energy per second when resting as opposed to 0.44 energy per second when not. 2 Life Point will regenerate every 6 seconds, as opposed to the normal 1 Life Point per 6 seconds. This effect does stack with the rapid heal prayer, however the stacking works as such: resting and the prayer each add one life point regenerated every 6 seconds, so that if a player activates rapid heal and rests, they gain 3 life points every 6 seconds.
You are not able to rest while you are poisoned, diseased, being attacked, holding a banner, or in the form of a monkey, goblin or a penguin. Additionally, the resting ability does not give you immunity to the attacks of other players or NPCs.
This feature was released in the run energy upgrade of 9 June 2009<ref>Mod Fetzki. Run energy upgrade. RuneScape News List. Jagex Ltd. 2009-06-09. “You can now sit down and rest anywhere by right-clicking on the run button, which will recharge your run energy (and Hitpoints) much faster (the musicians located at various places around Gielinor provide even faster recharge rates).”*</ref>.
Recovery Time
| Agility Level | Energy per second |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2.8 |
Musician
When listening to a Musician, energy and life points will regenerate even more quickly. At agility level 1, resting near a musician regenerates energy at 3.8 energy per second instead of 2.8 when resting normally or 0.44 when not resting at all. If the player toggles the run option on or off while resting, the in-game music will switch to a different track.
There are a total of 27 (15 members only ) musicians found in the following locations:
Members Only Musicians
- In the north west corner of Sophanem (west of the sword shop).
- North of the bank in Shantay Pass .
- In Mort'ton Swamp, west and over the river from the Mage Training Arena .
- East of Fenkenstrain's castle , near the well.
- At the North-West corner of the main section Karamja , next to the general store.
- Just South-west of Shilo village .
- Just above the Catherby fishing spots.
- On the path west from Sinclair mansion south of the river.
- East of the Fremennik province , north of the Golden Apple Tree .
- Just south of the fishing guild .
- In the Port Khazard area, between the Tower of Life and the Fight Arena .
- Just West of Yanille .
- Just East of Eagles Peak .
- Very near Isafdar .
- Near the entrance to the palace of Miscellania .
Free-to-Play Musicians
- North of Al Kharid near the gem trader.
- East of the Red Dragon Isle , in the Wilderness .
- Just off the South East corner of the Forgotten Cemetery in the Wilderness .
- The Ghostly Piper at the south of Demonic Ruins.(You need a Ghostspeak Amulet to talk to him.)
- In the Stealing Creation lobby.
- Near the Northern entrance to the Al Kharid desert.
- East of Varrock , off the north fork from the Eastern entrance.
- Between Varrock and the Barbarian Village , just South of Juliet's house (as in Romeo and Juliet ).
- In Lumbridge , just north of the castle near the river.
- In Draynor outside Ned's house .
- North of Port Sarim , by the cross roads.
- Just North of Falador , at the T-junction.
- At the Southern entrance of the Monastery, east of Ice mountain .
History
The button originally appeared in the 25 March 2009 system update along with an option to Turn run mode on/off. When selected, the message "Coming Soon..." appeared in the text box.
Jagex stated on the RuneScape Forums that the rest option would not be linked to fatigue or sleeping bags.<ref>Jagex's thread regarding the rest option.*</ref>
On the 19 March 2009, Jagex created a RuneScape account on Facebook. One of the pictures added shows a player battling Chronozon, and a message in the chat box that reads, 'You feel much better after a quick rest,' undoubtedly a reference to the rest feature. This shows the Rest button will have some kind of restoring properties.<ref>Picture from Jagex's Facebook account.*</ref>
On 1 April 2009 the "Rest" option was removed. That same day in the RuneScape Forums, Mod Ash posted "The Rest option is coming soon. I'm not sure exactly when. Until it does finally come, there's no real need to leave it sitting there doing nothing." <ref>Jagex mod post regarding the rest option.*</ref>
On 23 April, Jagex released a development diary stating that the "rest" feature was a mistake. The diary also states that the rest feature will centre on "buskers", musician NPCs who play their instruments.<ref>Development Diary regarding the rest option.*</ref>
On 9 June 2009, the rest option was released.
Rest feature glitch
The rest update, while extremely popular, had many unexpected side effects and caused crippling glitches to the game for the first day after its release, causing angry reactions by players who found that the glitches interfered with their gameplay.
Zen Resting
Zen Resting was released on 21 August 2012 with the update: Update:New to Solomon’s General Store: Introducing...Skill-Fu!. When activated via the customization screen, you'll be able to use the Zen Resting when resting.
There is also a minor graphical glitch, where if a player is wearing a skillcape, the skillcape will dissappear, but not the tassles at the front of the cape.
The animation will not activate if a character is wearing any of the athlete's legs.
Trivia
- If you try to do an emote while resting a message will come up saying "Emotes aren't very restful.".
- If you rest while in a few squares of a musican, your body will turn to the musican and you will listen to him/her from a distance.
- Before a fixing update, you could rest while banking